Is there a 14 mos sleep regression? I'm losing my mind!

[nstewart]

DS is a busy, bright (almost) 14 month old.  He's never been a great napper (it takes a great deal of unwinding to get him to have even an hour nap) and still wakes frequently at night (like 3 times on a good night, most nights it's more).  I'm o.k. with the frequent waking (I don't love it, but I figure he'll stop at some point, right? ) as he usually goes right back to sleep.  But now, all of a sudden he is fighting bed time AND refusing to go back to sleep when he wakes at night and waking even more than usual!  My first thought was teeth, but tyelnol/teething tabs, etc. have not helped the situation.

I'm going to lose my mind.  It took me 1.5 hours to get him to bed last night.  I was so tired from being up with him from 11-2:30am the night before (when he didn't want to sleep, but just wanted to play!) it was all I could do to stay patient with him and not just walk out of the room with him in his crib.  Nothing seems to work to settle him to sleep.  Nursing, rocking, singing...I have even started crawling into his crib with him (which was working a few weeks ago, but no longer).  We bed share from about 3am onwards, and I've started bringing him to our bed earlier many nights in an attempt to get more sleep.  This isn't even working to get him to settle to sleep and now DH and I are both sleep deprived.  I'm tempted to do a partial night weaning to see if he might wake up less if he knew he wouldn't be nursed but since I've just recently started back at work a month ago I don't want to make any more changes than necessary.  I've also tried leaving the door to his room partially open, with the hall light on in case he's afraid of the dark.

To make things worse (for me) he only wants mom at night.  He just cries if DH tries to get him back to sleep.  Or, he will (occassionally) settle for DH only to wake up as soon as DH puts him back in his crib.  So I feel like I'm really not able to take a break from the situation when I am frustrated.

I am at a loss.  Any suggestions?  Is this normal?  I also don't think it is that he's getting too much sleep during the day.  It's a good day if he naps for 2 hours.  I think he would benefit from more sleep during the day.  Our nanny does her best to get him to have 2 naps and to sleep longer when he only naps once but as I've said, he is not a good napper.

I'm sorry to be such a whiner!  Please help!

[Ginger Bean]

I think it's pretty normal. There is a Wonder Week around 60 weeks:

http://www.thewonderweeks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=161

Maybe he's also starting the transition to 1 nap?

[mamadiamond]

dd went through something very similar a few weeks ago at 13.5 months. after she moved to one nap and an earlier bedtime it got much better and the past week has been some of her best sleep in months. hang in there.